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It would be so good if people could learn to listen and try to understand one and other. Perhaps then there wouldn't be so much hatred and bigotry which is so often born out of ignorance.

What can you do to make it happen?

Hopefully I can try to understand and listen to the people I meet and encourage them to extend the same courtesy to me. Small steps but perhaps they may then be encouraged to take the same approach with others in their life.

When you're not busy changing the world, what do you do for fun?

Try to meet and enjoy the company of new and old friends. Nothing better than a good chat, over a beverage of some sort, with good company.

I'm still finding my feet in my new world having only been out for a relatively short period of about 10 months. But I have emailed a few politicians (a new thing for me) on homophobia and equal love. One of them is my local Federal MP, Mr Nick Champion. Here's the correspondence so far - nothing brilliant but just me having my first go supporting an issue that is important to me.

On the 12th of May 2011, I sent an email to Nick Champion, Member for Wakefield. The…

Hi. My name is Andre and I’m new to this site. I joined a couple of days ago and answered the questions for the profile page which you can obviously check out if you want to. Within hours of joining, I received the following message:

“Hi Andre... thanks for joining us here! I'm really interested in what you have to say about listening... after the weekend rally (see blogpost) I'm left wondering how to help the homophobes listen... and how can we listen better to whatever is going on… Continue

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Hi Andre... thanks for joining us here! I'm really interested in what you have to say about listening... after the weekend rally (see blogpost) I'm left wondering how to help the homophobes listen... and how can we listen better to whatever is going on for them?